On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Paul Libbrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le 24 août 2011 à 10:41, Jerome Velociter a écrit : > >>> * Should this module be limited to thumbnails only or can we make it a more >>> generic module in charge of handling image manipulations (and caching) in >>> general (and thus including thumbnails)? I see this as replacing the old >>> image plugin. > > Just out of curiosity, is this plugin supposed to work properly within > headless servers and out of them? > I tend to meet often image manipulations tools that rely on a GUI which is a > problem for many servers. > At the end, everyone does it with ImageMagick (which is a fairly powerful > tool).
Right now it's using the old image plugin, so java.awt classes. While I was thinking about going for an image module, Sergiu pointed me towards Apache xml graphics library. Using an external tool such as image magic as an alternate implementation could also be interesting indeed. > > The name "thumbnails" made me think of thumbnails of pages, which is another > area in evolution but would require an amount more work. What do you mean by that ? Visual thumbnail representation of a document ? Jerome > > paul > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Jerome Velociter Winesquare http://www.winesquare.net/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
